The Enterprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
H. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1938
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Strictly Cuh in Advance)
IN MARTIN COUNTY
One year $1.75
Six months 1.00
OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY
One year $2.25
Six months 1.25
No Subscription Received Under 6 Months
Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request
Entered at the post office in Williamston, N.
C., as second-class matter under the act of Con
gress of March 3. 1870
Address all communications to The Enterprise
and not individual members of the firm.
Tuesday, November 29, 1938.
A Big Steal
Sincerely believing they had a meritorious
claim, Martin County people recognize the re
fusal of the State Highway and Public Works
Commission to refund to several counties mon
ey expended for the construction of main high
ways as the one big steal of the century. The
State has repudiated its promise to the people,
they say, and they are irked no little to see an
all-powerful agency continue its ruthless march
on the backs of poverty and actual want back
in the counties.
Forced to recognize the refund problem, the
State administrations apparently said in the
beginning that not a single crumb will fall
from the heavily laden table of the highway
commission, and today the only danger hang
*ig over the road fund is the right of the Gen
eral Fund to step in and take a bite that the
numerous commissions might continue well
fed.
Facts and figures well planted in the minds
of Martin County people have never, been
brought to light by those designated with the
task of investigating the merits of the claims to
road refunds "Advance the money now, and
the State will assume the responsibility later,"
Martin County people were told. "There'll be
some revenue for you from the gas tax," they
were assured. The promises have been forgot
ten by those who made them, and the gas tax
is packed away in Raleigh out of reach of ev
eryone except the few.
At no time was it ever pointed out that North
Carolina paid for a road and then turned
around and maintained that it was not right to
pay for a link connecting the first road. Little
was said about at least one county and possibly
others receiving refunds
Martin County spent half a million dollars
building main highway routes and after sad
dling its property owners with heavy taxes it
did not and could not properly finance its sec
ondary system. And then the North Carolina
Highway Commission comes along and points
out that Martin County failed to build good
secondary roads, and intimates that it cannot
do anything to relieve the situation.
The claims to road refunds have been denied
and the highway folks now say Martin County
is getting its share of the maintenance fund. It's
a peculiar system of bookkeeping they have up
in Raleigh.
Slightly Out Of Date
More than ten years ago, a Martin County
man bought a truck The wear and tear carried
the machine to the junk heap two or three years
later. This week, the purchaser of that old truck
received from the Motor Vehicle Bureau of the
North Carolina State Department of Revenue a
notice that 1938 license tags were to be placed
on the old machine.
It is a bit difficult to understand why a de
partment, headed by efficiency experts and
surely fairly-well paid captains of industryr
would put the State to the expense of mailing
strictly out-of-date notices.
The cost probably isn't much, but it is prob
able that one or two miles of Martin County
'tater rides could be widened to a respectable
width with the amount of money that is being
thrown away sending out notices that have
been out of date for years.
And the South Sleeps On
"The people are waking up," critics of the
New Deal point out in explaining the Republi
can gains in the recent election. "They are tired
of all this government spending; they are tired
of a dictatorship,' some of thm go so far as to
say in rejoicing over the weakened ranks
While the official returns are not available
at this time, the press points out that North
Carolina and the South held its Democratic ma
jorities and even increased them in some sec
tions. Is it that the South still sleeps?
It would appear that many have recovered
their hides lost in 1932 and are now ready to re.
turn for another fleecing.
A Crowning Achievement
Celebrating a few days ago its
niversary, The Charlotte News, one of the fore
most afternoon papers in the South and a
unique one in all the country, issued a 172
page edition, an edition that comes as a crown
ing achievement in the lives of the Dowd Broth
ers and one that does credit to Charlotte and
North Carolina and even the South.
Interesting are the revived stories of the long
ago, and encouraging is the reward reaped af
ter years of trials and tribulations that are com
mon to the lot of everyone of us in all fields
of endeavor. And while the edition comes as a
crowning achievement for those who have la
bored long and hard, and while it expresses
bigness and the capacity to match the produc
tion of the great metropolitan presses, the Char
lotte News is not wrapped in its entirety in
those 172 pages. It goes back to the early days
when the late W. C. Dowd struggled at the
helm and advanced principles that were to pro
mote the welfare and interests of a New South.
Those principles are kept alive today by two
sons who are awake to the needs of North Car
olina and the other Southern States.
J. E. and W. C. Dowd, Jr., were handed a big
assignment following the death of their father.
That they have succeeded and succeeded well
in handling that assignment is evidenced in the
character, sir.e and style of their fiftieth anni- .
versary edition, an edition that almost upsets
the balance in a small country -printer's- corner-,
but one that will be preserved as a valuable
history of Charlotte from 1888 to the 1938.
A Bad Situation
It's a bad situation when any public agency
closes its doors to the public, and then sticks |
hand out for the taxpayers' money. It may be
best at times to withhold certain information
from the public, but whether it be for the best
or the worst, the public is entitled to all the
facts.
Talking about the Highway Commission re
cently, the Greensboro News said: "The way it
proceeds in its public relations these days, some?
of the inquiring brethren 'low as to how it's al
most necessary to use road machinery to dig
out information on what is distinctly Tom Tar
Heel's very own business."
1939 Crop Control Vote
Goldsboro Transcript h Messenger.
On December 10 cotton farmers will decide
by vote if they want the quota system of con
trol continued for 193.
In all probability, the Department of Agri
culture says, tobacco farmers will vote on the
same day to decide if they want the quota and
allotment system for tobacco continued anoth
er year.
A vote on December 10 will insure sufficient
time for the working out of basic information
on which quotas are awarded well in advance
of the planting season, that is if the vote is fav
orable. The favorable vote for the quota sys
tem for 1938 came so late that county commit
tees and farm agents charged with putting the
plan into effect did not have sufficient time
for their task. They were forced to work under
the greatest pressure to make allotments and
get out cards before the farmers were clamor
ing for authorizations to sell their crops. Some
of the eonfusion and objection to the plan as it
has worked in 1938 certainly resulted from the
speed and pressure under which the program
had to be placed in effect.
On the other hand, however, there will be
one objection to voting as early as December 10.
The experience of 1938 has shown the pressing
need for change, simplifications, clarification
and improvement in the congressional act un
der which the quota plan operates. The Depart
ment of Agriculture and leading farm organi
zations and individuals already have moved to
inaugurate legislation needed to make the quo
ta plan more immediately understandable to
the average man.
The insistence is so great that the next Con
gress is certain to attempt to rewrite and im
prove the plan, possibly through amendments
But the next Congress will not meet until Jan
uary 1 and amendment or change in the act
must wait this session. Some farmers who have
opposed the quota plan may not be willing to
trust to Congress to make the necessary changes
in the act and may accordingly vote against
As unsatisfactory as the program has been in
many individual instances, its collective effect
has been very favorable, particularly for tobac.
It now appears that this year's average I or
tobacco will be 23 to 24 cents a pound. The crop
is short, partly because of the quota system. But
farmers as a group will receive more money
than would have been the case had acreage not
been restricted. If every one had grown as
much tobacco as he wanted to this year we
should have seen a very depressed business
condition in the tobacco growing sections. The
prices would have been down around 10 cents,
many studious men believe; this section would
have been faced with a very serious condition.
In the face of these facts and recollections, of
9-cent tobacco a few years ago when there was
no sort of control, farmers will think many
times before voting to do away with the con
trol plan, even if they have not approved of it
entirely.
NOTICE OF SALE
| Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of the power of sale
I contained in that certain Deed of
Trust from S. F. Harrell and wife to
W. C Haishp, Trustee, bearing date
November 30, 1937, and recorded in
the Public Registry of Martin Coun
ty in Book P-3. at page *06, default
having been made in the payment
of the indebtedness for which said
Deed of Trust was given as security,
and the terms and stipulations there
of not having been complied with
and at the request of the holder of
said notes and Deed of Trust the un -
dertugned will on Saturday, the 31st
day of December, 1938, at twelve
(12) o'clock Noon, at the Court
house door of Martin County, in Wil
liamston, N. C? offer for sale, at pub
lic auction, to the highest bidderTfor
cash, the following described real
estate:
Tract 3-A of the House Farm: Be-,
ginning at a large white oak tree on
a branch, w hich is the most wester
ly corner of Tract 2-C in the division
of the House Traot; thence South 33
degrees *0' West 70 feet to a point;
thence South 34 degrees 00' West 700
feet to a point on A. C. L. Railroad;
thence along said Railroad S *5 de
grees 00' East 383 feet to a point;
thence N. 27 degrees 00' East 574
feet to a point on the road; thence
N 72 degrees 30' W. 200 feet to the
point of the beginning. Containing
6 2 acres according to a plat and
survey by L. E. Wooten. C.E.. on
date, December , 1934,
Tract 3-B of the House Farm: Be
ginning at a point on the A. C. L.
Railroad, which is the most wester- .
sion of the House Tract, thence along I
said railroad North 42 degrees 00'
West 467 feet to a point; thence S.
65 degrees 00' West 584 feet to a
point; thence S. 5 degrees 30' W. 1723
feet to a corner of Dr. Harrell's line;
thence along Dr Harrell's line S. 86
degrees 00' East 2750 feet to a point I
on the A. C. L. Railroad; thence I
along said Railroad N. 45 degrees W
00' West 2552 feet to the point of be
ginning, Containing 75.7 acres ac
cording to plat and survey made by
L. E. Wooten, C.E , of date Decem
ber , 1934 And the same prem
ises allotted to F. S. Harrell in the
H. K. Harrell land division entitled
"Mrs S. A. Harrell, et als, Ex-Par -
tee" of record in the office of the
Clerk Superior Court of Martin
County, to which reference is here
by made for a more perfect descrip
tion
Third Tract: Lying and being in
the Town of Oak City, County of
Martin, and State of NortfrCaroltna, |
in the intersection of Railroad Street I
in said Town and Highway No. 44,
beginning at the corner of said Rail
road Street and Highway No. 44;
thence along Railroad Street to the
line of E. Norman Harrell; thence
along his line to the line of the lands
of H. K. Harrell Estate; thence along
the line of the lands of H K. Harrell
Estate to Highway No 44, thence
along Highway No. 44 to the begin
ning, same being a house and lot in
the town of Oak City in the inter
section of said Highway No. 44 and
Railroad Street.
This the 28th day of November,
W C HAISLIP,
Trustee.
Hugh G. Horton, Atty. n29-4t
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust executed to the undersign
ed trustee by Mrs. Florine Hopkins
and Sam Hopkins on the 6th day of
February, 1928, and of record in the
public registry of Martin County in
Book Y-2 at page 400, said deed of
trust having been given for the pur
pose of securing certain notes of
even date and tenor therewith, and
default having been made in the
payment of the said notes, and the
stipulations contained in the said
deed of trust not having been com
plied with, and at the request of the
owner of the said notes, the under
signed trustee will, on Wednesday,
the 7th day of December, 1938, at
twelve o'clock noon, in front of the
courthouse door in the town of Wil
liamston, offer for sale to the high
est bidder for cash, the following
described real estate, to wit:
Being Nos. 1, 4, S, and 1 of the J.
E. C. Davis Land Division, which
was owned by J. G. Godard as sur
veyed and platted by Burton Bros.
Auction Co., said plat or map being
of record in the public registry of
"~ rrtm Cuuiity Land Piviston Book
at page , and said tracts be
ing located in Jamesville Township,
Martin County, and state of North
Carolina, and being the same prem
ises conveyed to L. B. Harrison and
John Manning and later to L. B.
Harrison from deed of J. G. Godard,
containing ISO acres, more or less.
This the 6th day of November,
1938
R. G HARRISON, Trustee.
n!5-4t ELBERT S PEEL. Atty.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust executed to the undersign
ed trustee by George Butler on the
3rd day of December, 1930, and of
record in the public registry of Mar
tin County in Book C-3 at page 375,
said deed of trust having been given
for the purpose of securing certain
notes of even date and tenor there
with, default having been made in
the payment of the said notes, and
the stipulations contained in the
said deed of trust not having been
complied with, and at the request
of the owner of the said notes, the
undersigned trustee will, on Wed
nesday, the 7th day of December,
1938, at twelve o'clock noon, in
front of the courthouse door in the
town of Williamston, offer for sale to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate, to wit:
Lying and being in Martin Coun
ty, North Carolina, bounded on the
North by the Peel Mill Run, on the
East by Little Creek, on the South
and West by the lands of John Rog
ers, and being the same lands deed
ed to L. I}, and Eva Harrison by R
G. Harrison, trustee, by deed dated
November 6th, 1930, and commonly
known and designated as the Lucin
aeres, more or less.
This the 6th day of November,
1938
R. G HARRISON, Trustee.
nl5-4t ELBERT S. PEEL. Atty.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
No matter how many medicines
you have tried lor your common
cough, chest cold, or bronchial Irri
tation, you may get relief now with
Creomulslon. Serious trouble may
be brewing and you cannot atlord
to take a chance with any remedy
less potent than Creomulslon, which
goes right to the seat of the trouble
and aids nature to soothe and heal
the Inflamed mucous membranes
and to loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm.
tven If other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul
slon. Vour druggist Is authorised to
refund your money If you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene
fits obtained. Creomulslon Is one
word, ask for It plainly, see that the
name on the bottle Is Creomulslon,
and you'll get the genuine product
and the relief you want. (Adv.)
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES
I, James A. Rawis, tax collector for the Town of Oak City, State of
North Carolina, have this day levied on the following tracts of land and
will sell same at public auction, for cash, in front of the Post Office in
Oak City, North Carolina, on Monday, December 5, 1988, at 12:00 o'clock
M., for taxes due and unpaid for the year 1937, unless taxes, penalty and
costs are paid on or before that date The amounts listed below are taxes
and penalty included for the year 1087. In addition to the amounts shown,
$1.50 is to be added to each item to care for costs in handling the sale.
This the eighth day of November, 1938.
n8-l 5-22-29 JAMES A. RAWLS, Tax Collector, Oak City.
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